This week was awesome! We are having so much fun being in a trio! There definitely is never a dull moment and there is always TONS of work to be done.
This week I met this awesome lady named Sister Tillotson from the Skyline ward. She was talking to us about her mission and told us she served in the Virginia Richmond mission. Turns out that her vehicle coordinator was Elder Gootee, so grandma and grandpa served in her mission at the same time that she did! :)
For those of you that were asking, we are still teaching Ashton and his family! :) They are great! Ashton and his brother still want to be baptized and the parents still want to start coming back to church. We had a lesson with them last week and we were excited because we felt like they were finally going to come to church this Sunday! Then on Saturday night his dad ran into all of these medical problems and they couldn't come to church on Sunday :( One of these days they will be able to come!
We had this amazing lesson at IHOP this week! Haha best place to have lessons! We taught this guy named Barry. Years ago he went to a Catholic seminary to become a priest. As he was studying there he felt like that wasn't what God wanted him to be doing and that the church didn't have the truth. He spent years working to build his relationship with God on his own and searching for truth. Then, he started coming to IHOP every Wednesday at 4:30 to eat dinner and read his books on religion. A couple weeks ago his waitress told him about a great book that he should look into and asked if he'd like to meet with the missionaries! This week we got to teach him and gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon. He wants to meet again this week but as we got to talking to him we found out he lives in Sparks :( So now the APs will be teaching him! :) We're excited he has good missionaries to teach him at least!
In other news Sister Monsivais and Muhlestein saw a raccoon for the first time in their lives. We ended up pulling over to the side of the road as they took pictures of it peaking in and out of the sewer. After all the times I've seen them when we're camping, I didn't take any pictures. Sorry! haha
This week the Chesnuts texted us and asked us if we wanted to go get ice cream! So they took us to Dairy Queen and we got to talk to them for a little while! :) They told us all about how they met and their crazy wedding day and told us stories about each other. It was so fun!
It's crazy to think that another transfer is almost over. Every transfer seems to go by faster and faster and I still feel like I just left the MTC a couple weeks ago! Being a missionary is the best! I love all of the great people I've been able to meet and to see the changes in other people as well as myself :)
I'll try to send some pictures from this week! :)
Love and miss you all :)
Sister Ashley Gootee
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